Dee Dee, Trayvon's (Girl)friend
Discovery: DeeDee's (Trayvon's Girlfriend) Full Statement to the State Attorney
Posted on 12/01/2012 10:12:35 PM PST by zeestephen
The George Zimmerman defense team has filed a motion to compel Benjamin Crump, the Trayvon Martin family attorney, to produce the original recording of his telephone interview with Trayvon's girlfriend "Dee Dee". Summary in Comments.
Over the next three weeks every public statement by law enforcement reported the same thing - namely, George Zimmerman was freely cooperating with the investigation, and no evidence contradicted his statements.
On 20 March 2012, Benjamin Crump, Martin family attorney, held a live press conference in South Florida.
Crump stated that phone logs confirmed that Trayvon had communicated by phone and text with his girlfriend "Dee Dee" for much of the day he was killed.
Crump claimed that Dee Dee had been on the phone with Trayvon only seconds before his death.
Crump claimed that Trayvon told Dee Dee he was being chased by some man, and that he was very frightened of this stranger and was trying to run away or hide.
Crump claimed he interviewed Dee Dee by phone on 19 March, and that he recorded that interview in his office in front of several witnesses.
Although law enforcement certainly had the same phone logs as Crump, there is no public evidence that they had any knowledge of Dee Dee before 20 March.
A Florida prosecutor finally interviewed Dee Dee on 02 April 2012.
The transcript of this interview raises more questions than it answers.
Notably, why did Dee Dee never contact 911, or law enforcement, or Trayvon's parents, or tell her mother about these phone calls?
Also, in several key parts of the prosecutor's interview, even a neutral observer of this case would say it sounds like she's been coached.
And, at several points Dee Dee explicitly contradicts herself, and the prosecutor either tries to help her clean up the error or just glosses over it.
Dee Dee is the heart and soul of the prosecution's case.
Yet, Dee Dee and Crump were familiar with almost every important piece of evidence in this case BEFORE they finally stepped forward with her version of the facts.
And, for months the prosecution refused to provide Zimmerman's defense with Dee Dee's full name and contact information.
Only in September, and almost accidentally, the defense learned that Dee Dee is not a minor, but is 18.
And today, Benjamin Crump still refuses to turn over the first interview ever with Dee Dee.
Will that tape bring still more questions about Dee Dee's honesty?
Stay tuned.
Thanks zeestephen.
As the actual trial looms closer, the gibmedats will start flowing.
Sanford cops a problem for prosecutors in Zimmerman case, experts say
"Serino wrote in a sworn affidavit that there was probable cause to arrest Zimmerman. But he later told the Federal Bureau of Investigation he was pressured to author that document and didn't believe the evidence was sufficient for the manslaughter charge he recommended."
Trouble for the Race Baiters! One hard fact about out judicial system: it moves at a slow pace that wrings the emotion out of a case. Even Dr. Al is having trouble leading the emotional charge against Zimmerman now!
Orlando Sentinel.
I was expecting some unknown blogger.
Serino hired a top line defense lawyer for his deposition?
That is freaking amazing.
Love it. If the state rushes things, they may still be able to salvage a plea to a littering charge, but that’s fading fast. There’s no way anything she has to say goes to the jury without Crump coughing up the tape. If he’s coaching or recruiting her on that first tape he’ll have a whole lot of ‘splaining to do.
It would be a fascinating demonstration of media spiraling if the case just falls apart and he’s innocent in the end. You could take hours of MSNBC coverage and show the path.
It was local channel 9 here in Orlando that got the whole thing going. They did their own investigation and "Interviewed" witnesses on camera. Turns out some of the so called witnesses didn't see anything but wanted their 15 minutes of fame.
It was a slow news cycle and the national news picked up on it Channel 9 is a ABC station. ABC ran with it an the race baiters licked it up like a bear eating honey.
Did you get that info from Theconservativetreehouse.com?
I don’t know what to believe anymore. Just the other day I read that the prosecutors have asked Martin’s family or Crump for the PIN number to the phone so they could access the data in it but the family has refused to do so........
That's hard to believe because I recalled reading about the GF right away. But sure enough Crump came up with the substance of her call sometime before the 20th of March and then announced it to the world as "connecting the dots" and "blowing away" Zimmerman's self defense claim. Before the 20th of March the girlfriend on the phone with Martin was just an item in each news story.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Dee Dee doesn’t “Dee Dee”...
Dee Dee, Trayvon's (Girl)friend
Discovery: DeeDee's (Trayvon's Girlfriend) Full Statement to the State Attorney
Did anyone ever ask why "by phone"??? and not "in person"???
Who was with her on the other end of the phone in that interview???
Who is to say that the person on the other end of the phone on March 19th was the same person that BDLR deposed on April 2nd???
Isn't it curious that 2 days after this Crump-managed circus of revelations [3/20], Angela Corey is appointed special prosecutor [3/22], and she avoids a scheduled Grand Jury where DeeDee would have to appear, and charges Zimmerman on her own and the only evidence she has is the now-crumbling Crump narrative crafted 2 days before designed to secure her appointment.
You ask some important questions.
According to Crump’s statements back in March, Dee Dee was a minor (wrong, she's 18), she was severely traumatized by Trayvon’s death, and her parents (or, maybe just mother, I forget) wanted to keep her completely out of the public eye.
According to Crump, he contacted Dee Dee's parents by phone, and they agreed to allow her to be phone interviewed, but ONLY by Benjamin Crump.
And, you are not the first person to ask how we know the Dee Dee interviewed by the Florida prosecutor is the same Dee Dee interviewed by Crump - we don't.
Something else of interest...
It appears that Florida law enforcement NEVER tried to obtain the Benjamin Crump tape recording.
The reason?
Who knows - but it's hard to imagine why seasoned prosecutors would be willing to bet their case on Dee Dee before they heard her “first tape.”
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